Flash flood: Gurgaon men
reach out with medical aid
Group drove from Gurgaon to Dehradun and handed over medicines to army personnel
CHAYANIKA NIGAM

GURGAON: One of the
common problems witnessed during relief operations in disaster-hit areas is
the landing of a lot of relief
material that is of little or no
use to the victims.
Uttarakhand too has
started flooding in with
food, clothes and other
stuff that the victims don’t
need. But five residents of
Gurgaon made an attempt
to address this issue. They
first tried to find out
what the victims needed
and then sent medicines
for the victims.
The general secretary of
Uttarakhand chemist association Dr Amit Kumar had
advised state association
officer in Gurgaon Rakesh
Mittal to send in medicines
instead of food for the victims of the flash floods in
the hill state.
Accordingly, a team of

‘Buildings were crumbling all around’
SAURAV OJHA

senior doctors in Gurgaon
held a discussion on the list
of medicines that could be
required by the victims.
With around 15 huge
boxes containing thousands of injections and antibiotics along with blood
pressure and diabetes medicines the five people, who
don’t want their identities to be revealed, left for
Dehradun from Gurgaon in
an Innova car.
‘I was very happy and
satisfied to see that an

army chopper was waiting
for those medicines and
in a short while the medicines will
be delivered
to the victims,' one
of the five said.
They arranged the medicines at their own expense.
One of them said, ‘Though
people from various part of
the country are sending a
lot of stuff, but the victims
are suffering from scarcity
of antibiotics.’

NEW DELHI: Even as
reports of recovered
dead bodies and
damage to property
continue to trickle in
from Uttarakhand,
many have survived to
narrate the horror they
lived through after the
flash floods. One such
story was delineated to
Millenium Post by four
friends
who
had
gone there to visit the
Kedarnath temple from
Delhi. Kuldeep Verma,
Pradeep Sharma,
Prakash Gupta and
Mahender Singh were
sleeping in a hotel when
they were woken up
by a man telling them

back from the dead

Mango festival in city to start from
Friday, 110 varieties to be seen

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about the flood water
outside.
‘We ran outside the
hotel and saw buildings
falling all around like
a pack of cards, said
Mahendra. Wasting no
time, the friends left the
hotel and headed uphill.
They picked up some
biscuits from a nearby
shop that was still open.
When they reached a
police station after hours
of walking, they were
turned away by the officers posted there.
The four went further
uphill and took shelter
in a hut for three days.
Later, the army found
them and provided
them with food. They,
however, had to come
downhill on their own.

Delhi approves plan for
SC/ST residential school
Our correspondent
New Delhi: Keeping an
eye on the 2013 assembly
polls, Delhi government
is all set to revive its proposal of building a first of
its kind residential school
for SC/ST/OBC/minorities’
students.
The school would come
up in association with
Kalinga Institute of Social
Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneswar. A memorandum
of understanding (MoU)
to this effect was signed on
Thursday between KISS and
the Delhi government. Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit was
present on the occasion.
‘The proposed school
will start functioning from
this academic session where
1,200 children belonging to
the poorest and underprivileged sections of the society in Delhi will be nurtured
to enable them to join the
mainstream,’ Dikshit said.
The school will come up
at Ishapur in Najafgargh in
southwest Delhi.
Initially, 300 students
will be admitted from Class

IIMC to start Urdu
journalism course

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Our Correspondent
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad Development Authority
(GDA) is organising a three
day ‘Mango Festival’ to promote plantation of mango
samplings during the monsoon season and also to
increase awareness among the
youth about various mango
varieties.
Apart from cultural programmes, a contest ‘Eat
Mango. Get Prize’ is also
being organized as part of
the Festival.
‘We will also provide samplings of high-quality varieties which could be planted
in gardens. The objective is

The festival is being organised by GDA
in association with the district
administration, Ghaziabad municipal
corporation and the police
to integrate the festival with
plantation and environment
conservation,’ GDA spokesperson said.
The festival is being organised by GDA in association
with the district administration, Ghaziabad municipal
corporation and the police
department. The Festival will
be inaugurated by Santosh
Kumar Yadav, vice-chairman
of GDA at 7.00 pm on Friday in Swaran Jayanti Park

Cong, BJP spar over property tax hike
Municipal Corporation
walked out of the meetNew Delhi: The Coning of the house on Thursgress has accusred the
day in protest against
BJP of increasing the
the tax hike. ‘The ruling
property tax for commer- BJP in the three municipal
cial properties through
corporations including
‘back door’ measures
North DMC had promised
in the three municipal
not to increase any tax or
corporations of the
impose any new tax but
city. The councillors of
they have hiked property
the Congress party led
tax on commercial propMukesh Goel, leader of
erties by 8 per cent which
opposition in North Delhi is unjustified,’ said Goel.
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‘We have requested the
district magistrates of neighbouring districts- Meerut,
Saharanpur, Hapur, Buland
Shahar and Gautam Buddh
Nagar to send their mango
farmers to participate in the
festival with their mango varieties,’ he added. He further
added that over 110 varieties of the mango are expected
tobe seen at the festival.

NEW DELHI: In a
bid to restore Rashtrapati Bhavan ‘to the best
extent possible’ and
send a strong message
about the importance of
preservation and protection of the country’s
glorious heritage, a conservation plan that would
serve as a blueprint for all
future constructions in
the 330 acre presidents’
estate has been submitted to President Pranab
Mukherjee.
The Comprehensive
Conservation Management Plan (CCMP), as
desired by Mukherjee
was submitted to him
WEdnesday by Indian
National Trust for Art
and Cultural Heritage
(INTACH) at a function
in Rashtrapati Bhavan, a
statement issued Thursday by the president’s
office said.
Mukherjee asked the
secretariat to examine
the report and draw up a
time bound programme
for the implementation
of its recommendations.

I to III. The number of students would grow up with
the upgradation of classes
year after year, the chief
minister informed.
According to the MoU,
KISS would maintain and
operate the school at Issapur

for 15 years beginning from
2013 on a no-profit no-loss
basis.
The family income of
students will be considered eligible for admissions
should not be more than Rs
2 lakh per annum.

city briefs
SDMC launches ‘Monsoon
Emergency Plan 2013’
NEW DELHI: South Delhi Municipal Corporation
launched ‘Monsoon Emergency Plan 2013’ on
Thursday. Under the plan, SDMC has started a new
helpline in four zones to register complaints regarding waterlogging, fallen trees blockage of drains
and any other problem related to sanitation during
monsoon. ‘These helplines work in coordination with
the helpline at the civic centre headquarters,’ said

Former cop convicted for murder
moves court for parole
OUR CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI: The Indian
Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will soon
start a certificate course
to impart necessary skills
among Urdu journalists.
In a statement released
here on Thursday, the Information and Broadcasting
Ministry said the decision
to launch the short-term
course was taken in chairmanship of Uday Kumar
Varma who, as the I&B secretary, is also the chairman
of the IIMC board.
At a recently held conference of Urdu editors, Information and Broadcasting
minister Manish Tewari was
apprised of the need to provide quality training to Urdu

OUR CORRESPONDENT

ing Customer Relations
Assistants and guards will
be deputed at these stations.
They will ensure smooth
entry and seating of senior
citizens and commuters
with disabilities inside the
trains, the officials said.
‘This special drive is
being organised to raise
awareness about proper
utilisation of reserved seats

The school would come up in
association with Kalinga Institute
of Social Sciences (KISS).
A memorandum of understanding
to this effect was signed on
Thursday between KISS
and the Delhi government

Subhash Arya, Leader of House in SDMC.

journalism aspirants.
During discussions, the
representatives of the Urdu
press had requested Tewari
to initiate skill and capacity
building measures through
short-term courses in
the medium.
The course would be non
residential and open to all
full-time or freelance Urdu
journalists, and shall focus
on latest journalism practices, use of technology, copy
writing and writing for TV,
the ministry statement said.
The Institute is in process of finalising the course
duration, curriculum, fee
structures, among others, which is expected to
start in the next academic
session,
the
ministry further said.

DMRC to raise awareness about
reserved seats for elderly, disabled

NEW DELHI: To facilitate
smooth travel for elderly
and disabled passengers in
Metro trains, Delhi Metro
will launch a drive creating awareness among its
commuters.
The special drive will be
conducted on Saturdays and
Sundays beginning from 29
June and will continue for
a month, DMRC officials
said.
The stations to be covered under this drive are
Dilshad Garden, Rithala,
HUDA City Centre, Jahangirpuri, Dwarka Sector 21,
NOIDA City Centre and
Vaishali.
Special teams compris-

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for senior citizens and differently-abled,’ a DMRC
spokesperson said.
‘Through this drive,
senior citizens, commuters
with disabilities and other
passengers will become
more aware about reserved
seats ,’ he said. Presently,
each six coach train has 64
seats reserved for senior
citizens and commuters

with disabilities. In eight
coach trains, there are 88
reserved seats. Facilities
such as wheelchairs, lifts,
wide AFC gates, ramps near
Metro train doors are provided at all the stations for
the convenience of elderly
people and commuters with
disabilities. Paths have also
been designed for smooth
entry of visually impaired
commuters in trains.
The Metro staff is also
provided special training to
attend to such commuters.
Recently, staff deputed at
stations have been provided
training in sign language
so that they can establish
communication with hearing and speaking impaired
commuters.

NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court has sought the city
government and CBI’s response on a plea filed by a
former police official, undergoing life term for killing
two businessmen in a fake encounter at Connaught
Place in 1997, seeking three months parole for
medical treatment of his wife.Issuing notices to Delhi
government and CBI, a vacation bench of justice
Siddharth Mridul has sought their replies by 15
July on the plea of Mahavir Singh, a former head
constable, seeking three months parole to attend to
his wife Sarda Devi who is a psychiatric patient.

Three held in Gurgaon for
robbing lift seekers
GURGAON: Three people were arrested for robbing passengers on the pretext of giving them lift in
their vehicle from IFFCO Chowk here on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, police said on Thursday.
Inderjeet and Hanuman, residents of Haryana’s
Rewari district, and Monu, a resident of Bhiwani
district, all in their mid-20s, were arrested Wednesday night from sector 17. They were also involved
in several other incidents of robbery in Haryana
and Rajasthan, police said, adding that a local court
Wednesday sent them to police custody for three
days. Inderjeet is a graduate while Hanuman and
Monu have studied till Class XII, police said. In January, the accused offered lift and robbed two passengers from IFFCO Chowk in a car that was stolen
from Rajasthan’s Alwar district, police said.

Aditya Misra discusses aPI
with HRD minister
nEW DELHI: Aditya Narayan Misra, executive
council member of Delhi University met Minister HRD
Pallam Raju on Thursday to discuss the issue of the
removal of academic performance indicator and
performance based appraisal system (PBAS). ‘I
have asked Raju for an immediate removal of API
and PBAS as we feel that the self-appraisal submitted by the teachers carries its own sanctity and
teachers should not be burdened with the onus of
running after documentary proofs,’ Misra said.